Faculty Member, Conservatory of Theatre Arts
Professor of Theatre Arts
About
director, producer, educator. focus/interests: devised work, transmedia & performance, digital storytelling, immersive theater, pervasive games and actor training.
Professor of Theatre Arts and Dean Emeritus of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film at State University of New York, Purchase College.
A theatre director of many productions, including the world premiere musical Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Chaim Potok’s Off-Broadway The Chosen with Rob Morrow and George Hearn, and “American Camera” produced at Lincoln Center. Formerly on the artistic staffs of Lincoln Center Theater, American Place Theater, and as Artistic Director at Novel Stages & Arcadia Shakespeare Festival in Philadelphia and co-Artistic director of Ark Theatre in Los Angeles.
Directed and produced the first plays written by Nadine Gordimer, Richard Sennett and Chaim Potok. Playwright of new adaptations of William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Cody.
M.F.A. in Directing from Southern Methodist University and a B.A. in Culture and Society from Purchase College.
